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Avenged Sevenfold drummer Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan was found dead at his home in Huntington Beach, California, yesterday. He was 28. Preliminary police reports indicate Sullivan died of natural causes, but the Orange County Coroner’s Office is investigating his death, the OC Register reports. Sullivan helped found Avenged Sevenfold in 1999 ...

Steven Tyler has entered a rehabilitation facility to treat an addiction to painkillers the Aerosmith frontman has taken to cope with 10 years of performance injuries....

The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.

Aerosmith may be looking to replace frontman Steven Tyler, despite the band's 40th anniversary less than a year away.

British police are reviewing the death of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, 40 years after the hard-living rocker was found dead in a swimming pool.

Oasis front man Noel Gallagher has quit the rock group after a fallout with his bandmate brother, he announced late Friday.

Earlier this week, Eddie Van Halen told Rolling Stone that bassist Michael Anthony left Van Halen by choice. Anthony, who was replaced by the guitarist’s teenage son Wolfgang on the band’s tour with David Lee Roth in 2007 and 2008, has responded to Eddie’s claims, reiterating his assertion that he never quit the band.

So much for Southern hospitality.

Buried deep inside an Irish Times story about musicians surviving in the Internet age is a revelation that thankfully never became reality: Radiohead’s own managers recommended the band “split up” as the group struggled to record what eventually became In Rainbows. That’s what Brian Message, whose Courtyard Management helps oversee the band, admitted, saying ...

With 1,900 bands playing over just four days, we suggested avoiding this type of line at all costs. The band across the street playing to no one might have been just as amazing.